Ocean tides are “neap” right now which means there are high lows and low highs and overall it can feel (and measure) kind of flat line. Many people would not necessarily notice, but surfers do.
The way the tides are flowing right now has been leaving entire days/afternoons with a tide too low to surf some places. It’s just the energy right now and the way things are lining up. It’s not my plan, but Nature’s plan and rhythm. As much as I love to surf, it’s also been fun to have this knowledge and to come up with creative solutions. If that beach and that beach have reef, they wouldn’t be safe to surf right now. So, I am making do with other places and trying different waves that normally I might pass by for something better, cleaner.
It’s also given me more space and time for the darkness of Winter Solstice, which is nearly here. Whether that has been to sit and feel my feelings (eek!) or pick up the remaining gifts I need.
A solution born of necessity.
Which reminds me of life. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down, and sometimes you are just in this middle range of higher lows and lower highs and it feels….bleh. While you’re in that in-between, creativity is required. Or, maybe a rest and time out. The Ocean shows us when to take a break, or look somewhere else or just to wait it out. Patience.
I love how nature teaches us and shows us what is “normal” for her; life is often a combination of energies and sometimes too many energies, which can leave us feeling this “flatline” effect. It’s not amazingly great, and it’s not terrible, and we hang out in this in-between maybe simultaneously underwhelmed and possibly grateful….we anticipate the excitement of what might be next, awaiting.
Being with the rhythm of the ocean and her waves (tides are “tidal waves”) teaches me so much.
Virtually everything we feel internally as humans is modeled by the ocean already in the way she moves, shifts and changes.
It is the Season of darkness and in between, so leaving you all with the energies of the tides here to relate to your own life. What is in between? What is not possible right now? What might become possible? What are the messages in following the flow of nature right now, even when we don’t want to?
What creative solutions (or maybe just REST) are needed?
Enjoy the Winter Solstice and all of the blessed holidays this time of year.
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Maryn
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